Profilul absolventului de la diferite trepte de învățământ exprimă în ce măsură educabilul s-a apropiat de idealul educaţional pe parcursul treptei respective. Din idealul educaţional derivă formarea competenţelor-cheie, iar profilul de formare al absolventului este axat pe competenţele-cheie. Prezintă interes relaţia profilului de formare al absolventului cu competenţele specifice disciplinelor predate, care derivă din competenţele-cheie/transversale. Profilul absolventului nu poate fi reprezentat printr-o sumă de competenţe specifice disciplinelor predate la treapta dată, ci ar trebui să reprezinte o sinteză a acestor competenţe.

The profile of the graduate at different stages of schooling represents the extent to which the student approaches the educational ideal as defined for a specific stage. It is from this educational ideal that the key competences are derived, and the graduate profile, in turn, is based on key competences. The relationship between the graduate profile and the subject-specific competences, which derive from transversal/key competences, is worth analyzing. The graduate profile cannot be expressed merely through a sum of subject-specific competences that had been formed at a specific stage of schooling; instead, it represents a synthesis of these competences.